Sasquatch Chronicles - SC EP:86 East Texas Trip Overview
Episode Date: March 16, 2015Tonight we will be giving a recap of our trip to East Texas and the Sam Houston National Forest. Bob Garrett was kind enough to take us out to a few of the areas. The whole time we had non-stop rain a...nd flooding but we did have a couple of encounters and lots of audio and video, which I will be releasing throughout the week.
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Five, five, four, four, three, three, two, one.
One.
When I had come down this hill, I had seen this creature cross the road.
They would have ripped my locked door from my truck,
extracted me from my vehicle,
and there wouldn't do that damn thing I could have done about it.
This thing I got to notice in its eyes.
His eyes was real, real evil, real sinister, you know, the look it was given.
What are you here, please?
Jesus, quite.
You bet you.
Yeah.
See you.
It's about 60 foot nine.
I don't know.
I'm looking right at him.
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Let's start the show.
What a week.
What a week.
Welcome to the show, everyone.
If you'd like to give us call tonight, the number is 646-716-8-7-9-1.
And tonight I'm joined by Shannon and Dave.
Dave Hallett, who has been part of Shannon's show.
We had just returned from, and forgive Will tonight,
he actually had an emergency that he's had to run out to take care of.
So I hope everything's okay, but we'll be looking for Will this coming week.
Tonight, what we're going to do is just kind of go over an interview,
or over an overview of our trip.
We just returned from East Texas,
visiting with Bob Garrett and going out into the field with Bob Garrett,
which was, and not only Bob Garrett, let me give credit to some of the guys,
some of his guys, Mo, he was gracious enough to be with us all week, Sean.
Sean's awesome, Tim, all of these guys.
And they really took the time to take us out, show us around.
And so we're just going to give you a quick overview tonight.
I know like myself and Shannon and probably Dave and everyone else,
they probably have a ton of audio and video to go through.
So we'll have all of that up on the website, hopefully this week.
But what did you think, Shannon?
What did you think from, and we'll have Dave.
Dave came on Wednesday.
But what did you think, Shannon, when we first got there?
What was your impression of the whole place?
And what was your impression of day one of being out there?
Well, first of all, as you said, the guys, everyone was absolutely incredible.
I'm pretty bummed to be back in Ohio, actually.
I could still be out there easily for another couple weeks straight.
My first impression was, especially getting out to, you know, the actual locations and the areas that we were supposed to kind of be in,
that first day I noticed just how different the terrain can be.
even from one side of the road to the other.
It was the first thing that struck me.
You know, one side of the road is just very tall trees and very little underbrush.
You look to the other side and it's like eight foot tall, you know, underbrush and very thick with thorns and spikes and things to get you.
So that was the very first thing I noticed besides the weather that we were having, of course.
Yeah, it's interesting, too, the weather out there.
You know, I left Vancouver, Washington, and, you know, it was sunny and 70 here.
And then we flew over, you know, flew into Houston to just torrential downpour.
So it's kind of a bummer.
Some of the areas we couldn't get to because they were actually washed out.
But, you know, it's interesting.
And I'll talk a little bit about Bob and his whole crew and then kind of go into some of the things that happened because there was a lot of things that happened.
but you know I think I admire more you know I've talked to Bob for so long over the phone and we've
never actually met face to face and he just admired the guy he's probably one of the nicest most
genuine most sincere guys I think I've ever met all of his crew really all of his career
that way it's like going out there and being with your brothers out there in the woods
it's nice to get away from the bigfoot drama and all the other stuff that goes on and just
kind of be out there with those guys and it feel like you're with family I mean and I mean that
from the bottom of my heart.
You really feel like you're with family out there.
Bob's an interesting guy.
One thing I learned really quick, a lot of people,
there's a lot of researchers out there.
But the one thing that I'll say about Bob,
his son Travis, Brandon, I mean, Mo, Sean,
all of those guys, they are hardcore trackers.
These guys can track.
Not only Sasquatch, they can track.
You know, Bob will show me how he tracks pigs.
And he was showing me stuff that made sense, but we didn't really see any tracks yet.
And he was explaining to me a pig had come through here probably about a day and a half ago and kind of was just going through explaining to me how he knew that.
And kind of where it came through, probably where it stopped.
And then we walk over to another area.
And there's like pig track sitting there.
And I'm like, man, this guy is, this guy's good.
I mean, this guy could track a flee through a snowstorm.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, he was on.
real. It was incredible just to, you know, hear his views on things and just, you know, you kind of get a sense of, you try to understand and see what he sees. And he's just, he's bad of the bone. He's incredible out there. Yeah. And he's a real deal. When we were out there for everyone listening, and I'll bring you on here in a second, Dave, that first night, we go out with Bob. We go to this pond area. And when we're there, Bob says, hey, you know, I'm not.
going to promise you guys anything you'll probably hear sounds and he's showing us his maps and
showing us kind of how he how he does things and i've just never seen anything anyone do what he does
i mean i learned so much in the short amount of time i was with him i've just never seen anyone do
what he does but we go out to this area they called the pond um i don't think that's what it really
what it's called but it was it had a pond and it was in the forest and we're out there and probably within
what would you say, half hour, 45 minutes after the sun goes down, you start hearing these
things go off in this area.
And, you know, we had night vision and we had some thermals.
And it's so hard even with the equipment to see into some of the brush.
But one of the things that happened that night is Shannon and I were heading up.
Shannon, Mimi, and myself were up with Brandon, Bob's son.
and we'd walked probably what, Shannon,
200 yards from camp?
Yeah, yeah, about that.
And you could hear,
excuse me,
everyone had to cough,
you can hear this thing just going off.
And what it sounded like
is it sounded like it was getting closer
and closer and closer to us.
And I was going,
ah,
ah,
I mean,
just sounded pissed.
And it sounded like it had traveled.
If I were to guess,
just going off the sound,
it sounded like it had traveled a mile or two in a matter of seconds.
I mean, it was coming closer and closer and closer.
And I stopped me and Shannon.
And I'm like, hey, you know, we should probably head back to camp
because it sounds like it's coming our way.
But I mean, when you're out there, well, I'll give you an example.
I pulled one sound off and I'll be playing more throughout the week.
But here's an example of just sitting out here.
Here's what you'll hear.
And that's just kind of part of it.
haven't had a chance to really edit it or anything.
But, you know, like we heard that owl.
Remember that owl?
We heard Shannon.
And then it sounded like it went into a monkey.
Yep.
What did you think?
Yeah, there was like a real owl.
And that was after we, the four of us, myself, you, me, me, and Brandon have walked up the trail.
And we just kind of, it was awesome.
Guys, I wish you could all of it have been there.
We went and walked up this trail and we just, we just plop down.
And we were out in middle of nowhere.
And we actually got a, you know, a tree knock after a few minutes.
And it was nice and crisp and loud.
It still seemed to kind of, you know, it was a little bit far off.
But it was pretty crisp, really hoping we have some of that audio and it caught it.
But, you know, we would hear things in the distance.
And then, yeah, when we were heading back, we heard an owl go off.
And we're like, okay, well, that's an owl.
Well, whatever decided to go off after that, it sounded more like you were in a primate house.
And it sounded like, it just sounded like a monkey trying to be an owl.
owl and then it and then it um it sounded more like an owl after that you know it was um it was very
it was incredible it was awesome yeah it was strange it um i thought when i heard it the second
when i heard the other thing go off uh i looked over brandon i go man that must be one big owl
because i mean it had it was deep and then it were broken it went straight from doing an owl to
it sounded like you said a primate zoo
it sounded like a monkey going off
and that night was actually
I mean there was probably for about
three or four hours
constant constant vocals going off around us
there was a log thrown at us
in the middle of the night
which
okay here's what happened
we're sitting around the fire
and my girlfriend gets up to go pee
and the spot where she actually
went pee is where this thing had thrown a log
that wasn't the log and I'll get to the other
log here in a second but
we're all sitting around
we're all accounted for we're all sitting around the
campfire and we're just talking
and you heard
you just crashed sound like something
just threw this huge log at us
I want to pull Dave on I want Dave to
talk about
one of
his encounter
he actually saw something
and that was kind of a
unique night in itself.
That was kind of a...
What did you think, Dave?
Now, you showed up Wednesday night, was your first night there.
Right.
What was your impression of everything that was going on?
Well, first of all, I just, you know,
I again want to thank everybody for showing us around.
And it was absolutely amazing.
It was one of those things when I got there, like Shannon had mentioned,
that it was just a lot different than as far as Texas goes
and people think in their minds what it's like topography-wise
and flora and fauna and all those things.
It was a lot different than you think.
It's definitely a world where these things could exist.
When I got there, one of the things that had surprised me
was these guys had done their homework.
They knew their areas inside.
and out, topography, weather patterns, where these things move, and that sort of thing.
But I did not expect so much action so quickly.
I mean, I think I had gotten there, Shannon, it was about what, maybe two hours, and it got dark,
and then we started hearing stuff, and these were calls that I'd been in the woods my whole life,
you know, hunting and hiking, fishing, and stuff, and I've never heard anything like what we were.
Oh, that's right.
I mean, immediately.
I mean, literally, I'm thinking I'm in Jurassic Park for Sasquatch,
and I made that joke, but I mean, this is when,
and Westby don't mind me getting into it,
those, the howl screen growled things that we heard that were,
they were coming in from a distance.
I mean, there were 100 yards away,
and then there was another one that was closer,
and another one that was closer, I think,
but there were like, I think, Shand before these.
Let me explain this to the odds.
No, no, no, no.
you're good. I just want to explain to the audience.
We're sitting around
there's so many things that happened
between the Black Hawk
flying around and
everything else. But
we're sitting around the
campfire. We were going to go out
after dark with their gear on.
So we're just kind of all sitting there.
And I'm telling you, the
vocals that we heard that we heard that
night was not, I don't
think was Sasquatch. It sounded
like, man, I was
going to talk more to Will about this, but in the print that we found, it makes me think
there was something else out there. But what we heard, the vocals that we heard that night
sounded like a freaking werewolf. I mean, don't you guys think? It really wasn't. Yeah, like something
from a movie. It sounded just like that. It was very strange. And it, as Dave mentioned,
there was one and then, you know, you're waiting and then the next one is so much closer.
And you're like, this cannot be happening because that just went off.
like 20 seconds ago.
And you're thinking,
how much closer did this get?
It got so much louder.
You know,
and that's a great point.
And one of the things I would say,
and I'm thinking about this myself,
and I'm thinking people are going to
completely throw rocks with us.
But again,
I don't know a coyote or a wolf
or anything that would make those sounds
and come closer to you and challenge you.
It doesn't happen.
They make them and they go.
They run away.
You might hear it once and then they're gone.
But this was definitely,
it was methodical
and it was coming closer and it was paced and it was it was amazing the experience was amazing
yeah it wasn't um right next to our camp so the audience understands we're kind of in the middle
of nowhere and right next to the camp we hear these vocals going off and i think it was tim
sermons that actually found the print that we that we had cast
And it was a beautiful print.
The only problem with the print
is it was nonstop torrential rain.
And so even after like three or four days,
it was still like putty on the ground.
But we had gotten this print,
probably what,
maybe 100 yards from camp or less?
And it was a print.
And you could tell the travel corridor that they were going.
But I'm telling you that night,
those vocals we heard that,
I mean, it makes me think that was something else
because it sounded
I've just never heard anything like that before.
And then the following day we went,
and I didn't mean cut you off, Dave, I'll come back to you.
That's okay. No worse.
The following day, we went to the backside of that camping area.
Well, I guess you called it a camping area.
But we went to the backside of it, and we found a print.
But I've never seen a print like this before.
It was like five toes, and then on the heel, it went down to like a V.
it wasn't your normal and it was huge it was like you know it was probably 16 inches it was bigger than my boot
but and we were going to cast it but the rain was so bad but it was a beautiful beautiful track
but it looked like a V like the heel went down to a V and the area we decided to set up that
night that was actually Thursday night we decided to set up that night in that area
and Bob had come back out and I'll have Dave talk about his sighting here in a second,
but what had happened, this is Thursday night now, we're there,
everyone else goes for a walk with Mo.
And Bob's staying right there at the other side of the camp, kind of by the vehicle.
And I said, well, I'll stay with you, Bob.
I'll hang out with you.
I mean, everyone else can go and live the adventure.
I'll sit here with you thinking nothing was going to happen.
happen. We'll just chill out here. And so, and then Dave came back. So it was me, Dave, and Bob
were sitting right in front of the car and we're just all talking. And I don't remember, Dave,
did you have your night vision on you? Yeah, I did. That was when, uh, uh, uh, you asked me to hang out
and watch you guys back as you went in. That's the time you talked about. Okay. Yeah. So we're
sitting there right in front of the, the truck and we're just talking. And I can see everyone's lights off
to my left and directly in front of us there's kind of this real thick just a thick at a forest so we're
sitting right there and we're all talking and pretty soon we hear this thing crash through the brush
i didn't have any of my equipment on me everyone else i just let everyone kind of take the equipment
let them use it and i figured me and bob would just sit there and talk and we hear this thing
crash through the brush and then we hear this thing start crashing just crash crash crash crash crash
crash crash and and you can hear it walking and you can hear it breaking branches as it's going
and I remember like a moron I looked over at Bob and I said which one of our groups over there
without a light on like what and it was kind of frustrated it was like man they're making so much
noise over there and Bob goes yeah that's not one of our group that's not someone in our group
he goes there over there and I could see everyone's flashlights off in that direction
this thing moved so fast it probably covered 100 150 yards
Like nothing.
I mean, it was just, it moved so quick.
And then it stopped.
And then you could hear the thing go across the road on the, now on our right side,
flanking us.
Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
Just, you hear this thing just walking like it's just crashing along.
And then it starts moving behind us.
And all of this, what would you say, Dave?
All of this happened within, what, 20, 30 seconds?
Yeah, roughly.
I mean, no more than maybe 40 seconds, 30, 40 seconds, or the most, the very most.
Yeah, and it's crazy.
When you go back to that area, it's so hard to walk through there and just walk through there at a normal pace.
This thing was almost like, it would be like me trying to sprint through there in the pitch black.
But it moves behind us.
Yeah.
No, I was saying, and it didn't care.
Like, to your point, it was just making noise and just pushing through like, I don't care.
Whatever.
Yeah, it was totally like it didn't care.
It was making noise.
It moves behind us.
And I'm trying to figure out, is there.
one or two? Is that one still across the road or is this the same one? Because it's moving so fast.
So Bob takes off and starts walking in there to go take a look with his light. I tell Dave, hey, Dave, stay here, just watch our back. I'm going to go follow Bob, make sure he's okay. So I follow Bob in there. And you could hear this thing pacing us as we're walking in. And it's only like 30, 40 feet inside the tree line. But it's so thick through there. I could see.
standing, you know, 30, 40 feet and you never see me. And we're scanning with our flashlights
and Bob pulls his gun out, puts one in the chamber. I put one in the chamber and we're just
walking along. And we come to, we start walking away from the sound. And, you know, Bob's not
really saying a whole lot right now. He's not, you know, when he walks, you can't hear this
guy walk at all. I mean, he's, he could totally sneak up on anyone in the forest. He's so quiet.
So we start walking away from the sound, and I asked Bob.
I said, Bob, why are we walking away from the sound?
I said, the sound's back here.
Let's go back here.
And as I'm finishing my sentence, I hear this,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, from through the air.
Sounds like a helicopter, like end over end, huge, huge.
And I knew what it was coming.
It was a log coming, and it was a big log.
And you could hear it being thrown from end to end,
it's spinning like a helicopter coming right at us.
And I even, I ducked down, because I, I,
thought for sure it was going to hit one of us in the head.
But it hit a tree right in front of us.
And I just can't believe this is happening.
I just can't believe what I've heard.
I can't believe.
I'm just like, you know, I know what through, what just threw that log at us.
I know what just past us in.
And now my concern is, okay, I don't have night vision.
I don't have, I have a flashlight and I can't see where it's at.
So, but.
Bob looks over at me and goes,
Hey, so where was that dog man track you guys were talking about?
Cool as a cucumber.
Yeah.
Yeah, just, I mean, you know this guy's seen some stuff.
And I looked over at him.
Like, I'm just, my mouth is open.
And I'm like, what?
And he goes, yeah, where was that track?
Was it pretty close to this area?
And I started laughing.
I said, Bob, we just had a lot.
thrown at our head one of us could have just you want to know where the track okay let me back up you
want to know where the track is that and uh he's like oh yeah that was just a warning he's like uh you
have you have one in the chamber right i go yeah i have one in the chamber he goes yeah just kind of
keep it out just in case he goes um but so that track is it back here or is it and i'm just like
unbelievable man i this guy is cool hand luke out there i mean and i'm i and i'll be honest with the
audience, my heart was just pounding through my, in my throat. I mean, I was just like,
we should probably back out of here. So we turn around, we start walking out, and you could
hear this thing, just crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, following us all the way out. And,
you know, I have my gun up with, with my light on it. I'm just, you know, just in case it,
it decides it wants to do more than just pace us out. And we walk back to the truck. And
I just couldn't, I mean, I don't even know what to say.
But talk about, what did you guys think that Thursday night, Shannon?
When you were out with Mo and Dave, what was your guys' impression of that Thursday night we were out there?
Oh, when you got the log toss at your head, I was bummed that I wasn't there to join in the fun, actually.
I was really upset about that.
I was just that I wasn't there.
all I was thinking.
When I got back to the car, I was like, wait, what?
Because, you know, Dave was there.
And I knew that because, you know, Bob had said, you know, I don't really know that anybody should go back there.
You know, where you guys ended up being with the log toss.
You could mention that.
I'm not really sure anybody should really go back there.
So we were planning on not doing it.
And when I got back to the car with the whole group, we're like, where's Bob and Wes?
And Dave's like, well, they went in there.
And we're like, oh, my gosh, something happened.
So, you know, we kind of knew something big had happened and was going on, you know, at that time.
But I had to wait until you guys got back to get the scoop.
Yeah, what was amazing to me about that, the whole thing is I was talking to Bob prior to any of that happening.
And he just mentioned he's very cool, like you said, West, very, very cool.
And he's like, you know, they're probably going to come out over that direction.
They're going to move right here.
They're going to cross the road.
They usually flank over this area, get in the brush right here, and then move on.
And he was just so matter of fact about it.
And I think, Wes, it was maybe 10 minutes after that, 15 minutes maybe.
That is when we heard all the crashing straight across the road.
And then he called it, and the thing started moving.
And what was amazing to me as I'm listening to this is that the footsteps were bipedal.
You know, I've been in the woods.
I know what a deer sounds like crashing through the wood.
you know, a bear.
This thing was just, it was walking.
It was walking and pushing stuff.
But that in and of itself was amazing because you know what's there.
But the fact that Bob called it and he called exactly the way it was going to happen,
you know, I don't know what to say about that.
That was great in my mind.
Yeah, that was an amazing night.
It definitely, I know Tom in our chat room, he's asking if we went out to the Tornup
camp area.
Yeah, that was the first day that we went out to the Tornup Camp area.
And the Tornup Camp is, it looks different from what you see in the video.
It's a totally different, at least in my mind, totally different area.
And there's a lot of, especially through there, I think that's some sort of travel corridor,
because it looked like some pretty big, huge animals traveling through there.
You could just see it in the brush.
You could see, I guess to answer your question, yeah.
We went to the torn up camp area.
And it was kind of a, it was a creepy place.
It was kind of a, you know, kind of a somber place, you know, for everyone there.
But it was just kind of a, it was a creepy place.
I don't know that I would go out there.
I mean, thinking back now, I don't know if I'd want to stay out there at night.
I know we had talked about it, but I don't know if that would be.
be the other problem too is everything in Texas can kill you you know if the
sassafos don't kill you the snakes are going to kill you if the snakes don't get you
the spiders are going to get you if the spiders don't get you the hogs are going to get you
uh it's like everything in the you know across the board that can kill you is out in
Texas uh you know even the rabbits are are uh you know monsters out there but
um the night that we were out we decided to
we decided to leave and answer everyone's questions again in the chat room.
Yes, there's an area you can tell where they travel from one side of that road to the other.
It's on the backside.
And it's interesting because it's a little bit farther back than what I had thought.
But when Mo had taken us out, taking us all out there to walk around,
you could see where they're traveling on the backside and all the way around where they'd come around.
There was damage out there.
but we decided to take off.
We decided to leave shortly after that incident.
I know Bob was, Mo and the rest of us,
we went back down to where we had the log thrown at us.
You know, after about 20 minutes or so,
and Bob was saying, hey, I don't think it's a great idea to go down there.
It was kind of a warning that it was given us.
It's probably best just to leave it alone.
And we can come back tomorrow or we can go back to the other side.
Then he was really, really cautious with a lot of things out there.
which didn't surprise me, but we decided to walk down the trail a little bit,
and off in the distance, you could hear that monkey chatter.
You could hear howls, you could hear whoops, you could hear monkey chatter.
And the weird thing is that it would travel.
You could tell the thing was traveling like a mile or two, and it would stop and do it.
And it'd come in closer, and then it would back off, and it would come in closer and back off.
But that monkey chatter really, it's terrifying to hear that monkey chatter when you hear it because it sounds like people talking, but you can't make out what they're saying.
And that's what we were hearing off in the distance.
But we had actually decided to leave right after that.
Mo's like, well, let's just take Bob's advice.
We'll go back to this other area and maybe just not push our luck right here.
So we decided to leave on our way out
There's a log across the road
Placed across the road
Right where this thing had crossed
And it was up a ways on our way out
And it was intentionally placed there
And I got pictures of all of that
I'm going to posting that up on the website
But that's not my first time having something like that happened
Where you just come down the road
And it's not like it fell from somewhere
It's not like it was dead fell out
It was just coincidental.
It was placed out there.
It almost looked like it had been thrown out there.
And then you saw it break in half or breaking two pieces as it was thrown out on the road.
But it was almost like it was, didn't you get the feeling like that was its way of saying,
F you guys.
It just bothered me a little bit.
That long looked like, I mean, it literally, that huge branch, it looked like it was just picked up and it was broken into multiple pieces.
Like something just slammed it down.
And I was trying to debunk that, and it's like, you know, a tree where it looked like it came from,
the way it fell, it would have had to have fallen so far out and down across that road.
It was put there.
It was deliberate.
I mean, I don't know how else to say it, but it was put down with force.
And that's something that will stick with me, too.
But, yeah, I remember that moment as well.
Yeah, it was just odd placement and timing, considering what had happened, you know, just within the last.
you know, hour. It was just odd for a deadfall to come down, you know, just then in that spot.
So, very interesting. And that, you know, that monkey chatter was for me, and I want to go ahead
and people are messaging me in the, you know, private chats and stuff. Did you see one, Shannon?
No, Shannon didn't get to see one, but I did get to hear a lot of amazing things. That monkey cheddar,
besides the screaming, the second night was one of the most incredible things I've ever heard. And it was often
the distance a little bit, but it is just like it's described.
Yeah.
Yeah, and it's, people want to know if you saw one.
It's, uh, yeah, you know, and again, tonight, we're just doing kind of a quick overview of the trip, but throughout the week, I'll be doing shows on it.
We'll all be doing shows on it, but I'll be posting the audio.
I just played a very small clip tonight.
Sorry, guys.
Still fighting this cough.
Trying not to cough in the, uh, the mic here.
I need a better mute.
But I apologize to everyone.
Yeah, so that was Thursday night.
We decided to leave, and I know Bob was tired the Friday night when we were out there,
which I don't blame him because I was completely exhausted by Friday when we were out there.
The Friday is when Dave had his encounter.
Dave, can I tell the Wood Story or not?
For my version of the Wood Story.
Oh, wow.
Well, it depends.
Yeah, geez.
I know it was going to come out.
I'll tell you what.
You can correct it if you want.
It's your first time out.
First time out there, first time hearing stuff.
So I don't blame you for being freaked out.
But we go back out Friday.
And again, Mo, which is one of Bob's guys, the guy's prepared for everything.
If you want to be stuck out in the woods, you want to be with this guy.
He's got anything that you need.
I mean, anything possibly that you could need, he will either, he will do, like, research and development there on site and design it like McGiver, like, the ovens or a little stoves he had set up.
But, I mean, the guys that gourmet cook, he cooked some of the best chicken and steak, I think I've ever had while we're out there.
So I just, oh, yeah, M-O's great.
I just, he's like having a brother around, you know.
but we go out Friday and Mo had to take off so it was me Shannon me me Dave and Alex we were out there
and we go back to the the backside of the where we were at on the camp camp spot the night before
and we had all that activity so we're sitting there and you could hear almost from all directions
you could hear different things going off you could hear either whoops you could hear how
You could hear monkey chatter.
You could hear all sorts of things.
And one of the things, and again, I'm not big on wood knocking,
but one of the things I noticed when we're out there,
the previous two nights,
and I know Bob's not a guy out there knocking on wood or anything like that,
but I personally noticed when we're out there that last night,
I would hear one or two big whaps, hits against trees,
and then you'd hear everything in the forest just go off.
You hear these things off in the distance.
Sounds like one group going off over here,
five miles away.
You could almost hear something else going off here.
Behind us, you could hear stuff going off.
And it was nonstop that night.
I mean, we were constantly getting vocals at night.
And so I had noticed two nights before up the trail,
there is some four by fours in a stack sitting out there.
And so I'm like, hey, let's take.
that floor before and just one time just real quick whack like I've been hearing and see if we hear
something because it started dying down everything was starting to get real quiet by then and so
I go I'm sitting there with Mimi and Mimi's terrified you know she's like I've never heard anything
like this in the forest you know this is day five now she's like I've never heard anything like
this every night there's just something going off and you can tell
it's she's like I don't know what it is she's like you know because she's kind of new to this she's
like I've just never this is like like you said Dave this is like Jurassic Park out here there's
she's just freaking out so I'm trying to stay with her and I think Shannon was scanning with the
night vision and so I go to Dave and Alex and I said hey go back 100 yards behind us and we're
all unarmed right now which was not smart but at the moment we none of us were armed so we're
trying to all stay in a group and it was a bad idea being out there unarmed but we were unarmed
at the moment but i said hey you guys go back about 150 yards back and uh i said just drop it one
time drop it two times just let it echo through see if we can set it off the way i've been hearing
it since we've been there and so the long story short they don't want to go back there they don't
want to go back they don't go back there so i'm like okay you guys just wait here i'll run back
I'll take care of it.
I'll be right back.
And I'll have the walkie talkie.
I got my flashlight in case something comes out.
You know, maybe Mr.
Tough guy with my flashlight.
Like,
I'm as good as dead.
But I was like,
okay,
well,
I'll run back here and I'll do it real quick.
And you guys stay here with the girls and I'll be back.
So I start walking,
I start walking down the trail and I'm like 50 yards.
And I go to stop.
And Dave and Alex both like bump me.
And I'm like,
I like bump into me.
I'm like, what are you guys doing?
And they're like, oh, we're coming with you.
You know, both of them are like on the edge of hump of my leg.
And I'm like, what?
You guys, I'm not armed.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I was like, guys, I'm not armed.
If something comes out, I'm just as screwed as you guys are.
And so I walk up a little bit more.
And I'm wearing Dave on one shoulder.
And I'm wearing Alex on the other shoulders.
I'm walking in.
And I, and I.
And I.
And we walk up a minute.
walk in and I I don't remember I think we grabbed that we were grabbing the wood that time and
but we did like drop the 4x4 on the other 4x4 real quick and we heard I we heard something
step out from behind a tree but it sounded like it shipped the tree it sounded like it was just
shaking this tree and I shine my flashlight up and I'm telling Dave and Alex I'm like back up
Back up, back up, backup. That's way too close. Back up, back up. And this was a big tree. And it sounded like it was on the other side of the tree shaking it. And I could hear the two foots as it hit the mud like plop down. And I'm just scanning with my flashlight. But I'm like, back up, back up, back up. So we all start backing up. And trying to scan with the thermal in there is a complete nightmare because all the underbrush, it's so hard to see past the underbrush. But we ended up backing out.
out of there and i think it was right after that is when you had your sighting wasn't it dave yeah it was
uh it was afterwards we got all back down to the car but um prior to that i think uh wasn't that
when you dropped the uh the two-by-fours and did the knocks that happened but the area around us
immediately lit up with sound do you remember that like that's right that's it was it was
crazy it was like coyotes at first but then it was those
moaning howls that we heard.
And we, I remember all of us
kind of picked up the pace walking back down the trail
because it was almost like we opened this
Pandora's box of sound.
And it was probably the most
volume of sound we had heard that trip.
Would you guys agree with that?
Yeah, and you know, they reminded me
of the Ohio house.
There was just, yes, yes.
They were long.
And at the end, it was like angry, like that,
you know, it was, it reminded me
of the Ohio house.
That's the only thing.
I can say about those.
Yeah, that's a great call.
But I, yeah, so we had gotten back down to the car, and it's funny that you had mentioned
that Mimi was telling me pretty much to shut up because I was being too loud.
But what happened was, is we were sitting in the car and just so folks listening out there,
no, we had faced the car out toward the road, you know, just in case you've got to get out of there
whatever.
And I just happened to get in the back seat, open the back door of the passenger side on the right
side. And I decided, and you know, I'm just going to scan the area, but I'm going to scan the
brush where Bob showed us where these things moved up the night before and where we heard
the activity. And then, you know, there was a log throwing at Wes and Bob up the trail behind us.
So I said, you know what, I'm going to go and do the scanning. And I've been scanning for about
10 minutes. And I've got to tell you, it's something that you just, even though you think you're
going to be ready for when you see it, you're not ready for. I remember scanning left. And
I don't know if anybody's ever used night vision before, starlight vision, but, you know, it's kind of just that circle shape that you're looking in, your peripheral views a little bit skewed, but I'm scanning left, and everything's green.
You know, the road shows up as light green and that sort of thing.
And the reason I say that is when I'm scanning left, something comes in from the frame opposite way of I'm scanning that makes me stop.
and it's big.
It is walking across the road.
And it's not walking across the road like it's in a huge hurry and it's afraid.
And it's not walking across the road like it's taking all day.
It's just doing its thing.
The sighting was about less than five seconds.
It went off to the brush the exact same way that we had heard the night before.
but this was, this was to me, what I would call a classic sighting.
I mean, it was fleeting.
It was, it was, and I was left with that feeling of, you don't know, you don't know what you don't even know at that moment,
because you're seeing something walking on two legs.
You know there's nobody there from your group, and there's certainly nobody else there, period.
and it's coming across the same area
that the crossings had happened the night before.
And in your mind, you're thinking, like, are you kidding me?
And again, it was so fleeting, but I think I saw one.
I got to tell you, I think I saw one moving across the road
in the area that Bob told us that they typically move,
and I just happened to catch it at just the right time.
If I had been a few seconds of my sweep later,
I never would have saw it.
A few seconds of my sweep earlier,
I never would have saw it.
And, you know, I told you guys off air,
I'm still kind of coming to grips with this.
I think I said to Shannon,
this experience is a little bit humbling.
You think you know what you think you know about Sasquatch
and about, yeah, this thing exists and all of that.
But until you catch a glimpse of,
and I know it was on two legs,
and I will say that this was a swatch,
until you catch a glimpse of it,
you don't know what I'm talking about.
But now anybody who I've ever doubted
who said that people are going to think I'm stupid
if I talk about it,
and I'd say, oh, I'll tell everyone about it.
No, it took me a while.
I don't think I really was very vocal about it right away.
It was just, and I'm still having trouble
putting it in words other than to say
I can still see that green screen
on that starlight vision and I can see a dark figure walking.
And the thing I noticed right away was the footsteps and the space between the legs
and there were definitely two legs and a body above it.
I don't know this arm swing.
I just for some reason was so clued in on those legs because I just remember thinking
those are two feet, those are two legs, those are two feet and then it's gone.
Does it make sense?
Yeah, and Dave, I was wondering, and I haven't asked you this yet,
And I know it's still early for you, you know, considering you're still processing it.
But, you know, you do a lot of camping and hiking and hunting.
And is this going to change any habits for you or, you know, with your kids or anything like that?
I don't even know if you, you know, process it that far yet.
I'm just wondering.
You must have been in on the conversation I had with my friend Dave here today because he asked me the same question.
And I'm really having second thought.
about going out on solo overnight hiking trips anymore, to be honest with you,
which is something I've done my whole life.
But I'm starting, I've had those thoughts, and I was thinking about that on the plane on the way home,
is, geez, you know, you saw what you saw, geez, those things are definitely out there.
You know, you've never been bothered by him before.
But when you see him or you see what you think you saw,
you, it, it kind of changes your, your perspective.
So the answer, Shannon, is probably those, you know, overnight, even winter trips and
stuff that I do, solo.
I can't say that I'm probably going to do those again.
If I'm being completely honest at the moment, how I feel.
Right.
Yeah, it gets real, really quick out there.
I mean, every, I can honestly say every single.
night we were out there.
There was definite activity,
I mean, pretty major activity, really.
And a lot, a lot of vocals,
a lot of different vocals,
a lot of, you know, stuff you,
like you guys had mentioned the Ohio Howl.
And I think at the time we were sitting in the car,
that's why I was thinking,
well, Dave's new out here, he's excited.
But I didn't pick up on it.
My girlfriend's the one that actually picked up on it.
We were all sitting in the car and we were just listening and just being quiet.
I think I was trying to adjust my night vision and we start hearing what sounds like the Ohio
howl going off to our left and you hear this saying just going off and everyone's like,
shh, be quiet, be quiet.
And I had noticed Dave had his night vision up, but he wasn't looking in the direction that
the howls were going off and Dave was going, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And I was like, Dave, just, you know, I was thinking, man, just be quiet for a second so we can hear this.
But I didn't pick up on what he was doing.
He was looking the opposite direction.
And it's almost like you were kind of freaking out looking through the night vision.
And it's funny because, you know, we talk to a lot of people who are so afraid of the ridicules, so afraid of the attack, so afraid of after they see these things, that it's kind of in our psyche.
I know even after that night, Dave, you almost didn't really want to talk about it.
It was kind of like trying to pull it out of you on what did you see?
What do you freaking out about?
What did you, you know, so I totally get that.
Yeah, yeah, it was just, it was one of those things.
And I don't, you know, I've gotten home and I've told, I told my two girls, you know,
they love that stuff.
I tell my friend, but it's like I, uh, not, not certain I'm really going to share it
with anybody else, although I guess I really, I just did.
Yeah.
Anyway, but you know what I mean?
It's one of those things where you just, uh,
You know, you have this experience.
I think also, too, I think it was heightened by everything else.
You know, this is almost for me kind of a climax to everything
because to Shannon's point about the Ohio House,
just about every night in camp, you could hear those things going off in the distance all around you.
And it wasn't just one area.
There were sounds going off that you didn't.
And, you know, Mo had shown us, I was on a,
doing a little walkabout with him.
And he showed some tracks that were definitely huge, 16-18-inch impressions,
but they were going in trackways.
You know, it wasn't just one-off little here and there.
And so many things going on that at that moment, it was almost like this,
oh, I wanted to tell you guys, I wanted to say something,
but all that could come out was that, oh, my God, oh, you know what I mean?
That's all that I could really kind of muster at the moment.
And, guys, how funny was it that?
and this was before your
your sighting Dave but
Bob goes you know with this weather
it just it screwed everything up they haven't
had rain like that in years and we
had a whole week of it and Bob goes
I'm so sorry you know that not much
happened and we're all just looking at each other like
are you kidding this has been incredible
yeah and that's
what I mean it's
that's a guy that
has actually seen I think if we
took our audience out there
and just had them sit and with us
and just experience it.
Or even took someone who didn't believe that these things existed and just said,
hey, just come out here and just hang out for a few days.
And then tell me what you think.
I think they would freak out.
I think they would really freak out.
Because, I mean, you know, I've seen them.
And there was moments to where when that log was coming, I was like, it's time to go.
It's time to leave.
You know, and, you know, Bob's like the Clint Eastwood, a big foot.
He just kind of looks over at me and goes, so was that track over here that you guys found earlier?
It was like a dog.
He was really interested in the dogman track.
He's like, so was that over here?
I was just like, unbelievable, man.
This guy, you know this guy's seen some stuff.
If he's not freaking out.
I mean, he was cool hand Luke the whole time we're out there.
But going back to why I think that they get so much out there is this guy can track.
I mean, I think he could track a flee through a snowstorm.
I really do.
He's that good.
you know and Travis and for the Travis is one of Bob Sunj you never hear from same way man the guy can track
Brandon I mean even Brandon Brandon was awesome out there Mo all those guys can really uh track out there
one of the areas we didn't get to go to that I really wanted to see and I was actually going to go in there
and talk to some of the guys there's a road so if you can imagine people that all of the roads out there
had been flooded from all the rain.
There's nowhere for the rain to go.
So when it rains like it did,
it's all standing water.
But one of the roads was actually washed out,
and the Hells Angels own a biker bar down one of these roads,
not far from where we had camped,
but they own this biker bar out there.
And talking to Bob and some of the guys out there,
they were saying that the Hells,
Angels after dark, it's weird because that bar is empty. As far as motorcycles go, the bar is
empty. And he was telling me that he talked to some of the guys up there and talked to the owner,
and they refused to ride down that road at night. They've had guys pulled off their bikes.
They've had guys knocked off their bikes as they're going down the road, 60, 70 miles an hour,
being knocked off and being really injured. But these guys will refuse to go down this road after dark
on a motorcycle.
They absolutely will not go down this road after dark.
And Bob was telling me, you know, that's a really hot area over there.
And so that was one of the things I wanted to see.
I want to talk to some of those guys and get some of those experiences,
but everything was just so washed out.
It was tough.
But it was an epic time.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hey, did you guys notice this too?
I think we had talked about this.
But one of the things we all came to the conclusion, it was a couple of days into it.
We did see a couple.
I know Alex had a sighting of the small animals, but did it seem like for the most part that you didn't see?
And Moe actually pointed this out.
In these areas, you didn't see a lot of small creatures.
You did not see like the raccoons.
You normally see stuff.
And Mo's like, have you noticed there's none of this here?
There's not squirrels.
There's not anything.
And he's like, there's only really room for the big stuff now.
It's the Sasquatch and some of these big, you know, hogs that they've done.
go after some of these feral hogs and at dawned me I'm like yeah he's what did you guys
noticed that as well yeah I did it's uh as far as you know some of your normal forest animals
you didn't really see a whole lot out there we saw deer every once in a while um I kind of think
they eat the pigs out there is what I think yeah yeah I sell a lot of pig trucks yeah oh my goodness
yes it was interesting of you know even as we were going along Mo and Bob and then would point
out, you know, okay, here's pig root.
They were rooting here and they were laying here.
And as you said, they're incredible trackers.
I was just soaking it all in.
But it was Alex.
I think that last night, you know, everyone was a little crooped out by what was going on.
But he was like, this place just, it isn't right.
You know, and to quote him, I think he said, this is kind of an effed up place.
It's just not right.
Something's not right about it.
There's no, there's no, you know, chirp into the birds.
And there's not many birds lying around there.
for those huge vultures that we saw.
But very strange place.
I still wish we were there,
to be honest with you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You have the Sasquatch activity out there,
and then you've got, you know,
what's plentiful out there is vultures.
Just saying.
Yeah.
Yeah, and it's strange to you.
And again, we'll have all of the audio.
We'll have all of the video.
We'll be posting all of that to the website.
But it was a crazy place.
It really was, and it's strange to you because even,
and the only thing that really bothers me from the trip
besides a log being thrown at my head was some of the vocals that we heard
and the footprint that, and you know what I'm talking about, Shannon,
you were there when I saw it, I don't know what, I mean, I don't know.
I just, and maybe it's because we don't have a lot of, quote, unquote, dog man encounters
out in Washington State.
Actually, I don't think we really have any reports of them out here.
But I really hope we got that on audio
because I just had never heard anything like that
before ever in my life.
And the only, if someone were to ask me what it sounded like,
I would say it sounded like a werewolf.
It sounded like a werewolf just, you know,
sound like an 800-pound werewolf coming for you.
And the print was just so odd.
God, that print was just,
and I'll tell you the other thing too
I don't know if you heard it Dave Mo
one of Bob's guys Mo
yeah he does this
angry
Sasquatch call
and again I'm not
I'm not big on calls but
this guy's good
this guy's really good
at first time he did it I wasn't prepared for it
and I was looking for my gun
because it was so dead on
to it sounded like a pistol
off Sasquatch going off, but he did a growl.
The growl he did, I even told him, that's exactly the growl I heard, man.
You're not quite as is loud, and you don't have the lungs that it did, but that's really
close.
And, you know, he was saying, well, that's the same growl I heard.
That's why I was able to copy it.
But, God, some of the angry calls that this guy can do, I think would piss these things off.
I mean, if I had that kind of talent, yeah, if I had that kind of talent, I might go to
unsuspecting campers and have some fun.
But this guy was dead, dead on.
I mean, it would send chills through your bones if you didn't know what it was you're
listening to.
Yeah, so I was just going to say if there were, any of the, you know, neighboring areas
had anybody near us, they would have gone.
Okay, I think it's time to go.
That was a really, that was a great call.
I know Ramble 1 in our chat room is asking if Sasquatch and Dogman, they don't share
the same area, do they?
I kind of my, here's just my impression.
Again, I'm not an expert, but here's my impression.
I think they're cross and pass in that area.
The day one track that we found was definitely a Sasquatch type track.
It was your typical Sasquatch type track.
And then we even saw some of the damage to the branches of where it was coming in and out.
You could tell the, it was over on the other side of this berm where it could sit and watch the
camp, and that's where we had found the tracks. It looked like your typical Sasquatch track.
This other thing, I don't know. It was in a different area where we found it. It looked like it was
just passing through. And we took video of it. I'm going to try and dig it up and put it on
the website, but I just hadn't, for me personally, I've never seen anything like that before.
and when I looked at it I thought that's not a Sasquatch track that's something else
there's that's and it was a better track than that the one we had tried to cast
yeah it was actually a little jarring to see that I wasn't expecting that because I've
always gone oh you know dog man I don't know I mean I think the name itself just makes people
giggle a little bit anyway yeah but that it was and it's not like we were just off
some trail and somebody was messing around
and created this or something. It was
we were way off trail, just
poking around
by a creek somewhere. And there
it was. Mo found it.
Yeah. No, I'm the one that I originally
found it. And then I had Mo check it out.
Yeah, I almost stepped on it.
I almost destroyed it.
Me and my big clumsy boots, I almost stepped right on
it. And I looked down
at it and I was like, man, I don't know. I don't know
what this is. Moe, you come take a look
and he came over and he was like he looked at it yeah it's funny he looked at and goes oh no
and i go and i almost knew what he was going to say and i was like don't say it don't say it
no it's a d word yeah yeah that was and it would you know bigfoot tractors um i've never seen one
as good as one that was behind camp and uh with the dogman print or whatever the heck that was
that was a little jarring.
Yeah.
And we'll be posting that.
I know we're just kind of doing a quick overview tonight.
And throughout the week, we'll be posting the whole trip.
We have a lot of, to get people an idea,
I have like 30 gigs of video to go through.
I have countless, countless audio to go through.
I have just a ton of stuff to just kind of sit and go through.
And that's the bummer side of when you go on these,
trips because there's so much of that just kind of sitting and going through everything,
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, we each have a lot of work ahead of us with that.
Happily doing it, you know, just hoping that we caught some of, you know, what our ears
caught because it was highly impressive.
And like I said, Bob said, oh, I'm really sorry.
The rain really screwed everything up.
It's usually much more active than this.
And we're just like, oh, that was pretty active, Bob.
You know, it was.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I was like more active than, more active than this.
Jesus, what's going on out here?
You don't want to surprise me, guys, about the whole thing,
about, you know, you talk about getting the sounds and that sort of thing.
And now that coming on, you know, this side of the mic,
actually having been out in the field,
you have a whole new perspective of what it actually means to go on a trip,
an expedition, whatever you want to call it,
and actually get footage, whether it's video or audio.
Because I can tell you, if you're listening to this right now,
having not been there, if I was in your shoes, I'd say the same thing.
Did you get more, why didn't you get more, why this, why that?
Everything happens so fast.
It's in real time, and you don't know what the next move is going to be.
So it's catch as catch can.
And really, the meat of everything comes from the audio recorders being left out
and listen to.
But, man, this was way,
more difficult in getting things in real time than I ever thought it would be.
Do you guys agree with that?
Because, I don't know, you've done this maybe a couple of times before, but yeah.
You have to absolutely perfect conditions to even catch audio.
Even if you think that it's loud to your ears, sometimes the audio just is not going to
pick that up unless it's quite close.
And everybody's very quiet.
Or like you said, maybe the recorder is not on your person, but out in the woods somewhere,
that's probably, you know, a better chance of getting something.
right yeah I definitely have a new respect for people it's it's tough to it's really tough especially out there because I noticed during the day well I guess there was that one thing that happened but I noticed during the day it was pretty quiet and I'll try to answer some of these questions in the chat room but there was one time where we were we had separated Alex and Dave were off to off to our
right kind of down trail a little bit. Mo, myself and Mimi were on the other side of the trail,
and we had decided to walk in to this area to check out the, to see if there's any prints or
anything. And so we'd walked in this area. And Moe was kind of showing us, like, they travel back
here. And long story short, he's basically explaining how they come in and out, how they cross
a road over there. And you could see from that area, there was a huge, huge animal coming in and
out right there. And we're sitting there. And before we went in, Mo saying, hey, let's try and be
quiet. Let's not, you know, everyone keep their voices down. Let's just be real quiet.
And let's go and try and go on as stealthy as we can. Pretty soon we just hear this crash.
It sounded like a truck drove through the woods. And Mo looks over at me and he goes, oh, man,
I told them to be quiet. What are they doing? And I go, well, I'll go talk to them. So I was like,
well, I'll go talk to them.
the middle of the day. So I walked back and Dave's eyes are like the size of saucers
and Alex is nowhere to be found and I'm like, hey guys, can you guys kind of keep it down when
we're out? And Dave's like, it wasn't us, man. It was right over here and you could hear the
thing just crashing. But other than that, I'll say during the day, it's pretty dead out there.
It's pretty quiet out there.
Yeah.
Don't really hear any vocals.
You don't.
As soon as that sun goes down, it's like Jurassic Park breaks out out there.
I've never heard anything like it.
I honestly have never heard so many vocals in my life in an area.
And these weren't even a lot of the good areas.
I know Bob, the places he won't take us were completely washed out.
But I've never heard so many vocals in my life on a consistent basis.
You know what I mean?
Night after night after night after night.
Yep.
It was, most of them were a goodly distance away from us.
You know, unfortunately for US, the log was a little bit closer to your head than a lot of the vocals were.
But, yeah, the daytime was extremely quiet.
And not even just, not to keep hammering on this, but it was a little strange.
It was not only quiet for possible taskwatch activity, but there was just, there's no birds flying around there.
There's no squirrels run around, chattering each other.
So it was kind of like a light switch when the sun goes down.
You're hearing howls and screams and the occasional knock here and there.
So that was great.
That was a great time.
One of the things I noticed, though, about everyone, you know, together as a group,
you kind of observe these things.
The interaction people were doing their thing, but I noticed as the week went on
and we started getting more action for lack of a better term,
I was than you, but people started sticking a little bit more closely together.
Guys going off to relieve themselves into the woods and I wouldn't really leave the firelight.
Like I noticed there were some little things that you weren't embarrassed about anymore,
and it was kind of funny because I just noticed people sticking a little bit closer together,
not as close as I got to U.S. when I kind of was, you know, up your back when you were going to knock.
And I was like one, that was like one, that was one of the only times in my life that I've ever been in the woods where I'm thinking, you know, I'm actually, I'm, I'm borderline scared here, you know, and it was kind of a humbling experience, but for those of you listening out there, he's not really exaggerating that much.
Yeah, it was, it was, it was terrifying. I know people want to know they have, they have eased up on, on Bob out there. He doesn't, uh, he doesn't, uh,
you know, Bob hasn't been phoned
greatly and he hasn't been out a whole lot.
But I know when we left to,
there was, I mean, it was weird.
You'd see state troopers out there driving around.
And I'm talking back, back country roads,
not main highway roads.
You know, some of these areas consistently, yeah,
just all over the place.
and, you know, just weird places for state troopers to be.
And then I had left to go get Dave, Mimi and myself had left to go get Dave.
And I don't know if you were in camp when they were talking about the Blackhawk that was like landing.
I should add Alex on too.
Yeah, I was there.
And it never, we never caught sight of it, but it sounded like something massive.
Like something, you know, like if you have a four-bladed aircraft would sound like,
it just sounded huge and it was just it was you could tell it was like circling just behind a ridge
out of sight from where we were and at one point um Alex and I both agreed we thought that it touched
down somewhere um and it never shut down um but it it stopped enough for us to think that it
had touched down and landed and but then it it fired right back up and it was super loud
and it was circling again and it did that for probably about
15, maybe 20 minutes, tops, and then it was gone.
And I think at night at one point, we were all there,
and we had something go overhead, but you couldn't tell what it was,
and it didn't slow down or sickle or anything.
Yeah, it sounded like a military helicopter is what it sounded like,
and it sounded like it was just scraping the trees as it was going by.
It was flying that low, but it was just on the other side of us.
You know, it's so thick out there.
Even if you step out and you kind of look up,
it's kind of hard to see a distance out there.
But it sounded close and it sounded like it was scraping the trees out there.
But yeah, I mean, and there's so many more things that we can,
we'll be going over throughout the week.
We just kind of want to give you guys a quick rundown.
I just want to thank Bob for having us out there.
I've learned so much being out there with them.
I'm glad you both got to experience something when we're,
out there. I wish we would have had like a daytime, you know, uh, clear encounter. It's almost
more terrifying, terrifying not to see them. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely.
100%. Yeah, especially, you know, the evening that the screens got closer very quickly. I was
half expecting. I was like, here we go. Underwear changing moment come in. Here we go. You know,
that first night. Uh-huh. You know, if there, and the second night. And the second night.
really because you know we got those back to back we got we got screens that moved in
towards us which is like Dave mentioned that's kind of strange you know something's
coming towards you that's not the usual thing an animal is interested in doing so
that was that was twice that happened that was keep in mind too that uh sorry about that
no that's okay go right ahead no I was saying that keep in mind too that you know those things
might have stepped out of the darkness had they're not
not been seven, eight, nine people at the time.
You know, everyone, you know, that night just hanging out on the fire.
So to your point, they didn't see it, you didn't see it, but maybe it's because of the
numbers there.
And a lot of the sightings in that area, you know, have been at night in the situation.
Maybe we were fortunate in the fact that we did have enough numbers there that whatever
or whoever, how many of them were out there decided that they, you know, didn't want to
show themselves.
So, I don't know.
I mean, that's the side of it, too.
Yeah.
But that's the quick overview tonight, everyone.
We have audio, we have video, we have a lot of things that we are going to be playing throughout the week.
A lot more things.
But I wanted to kind of give you guys an overview, let everyone know we're alive or well.
Had a great time.
It was very exciting.
And I can't wait to do it again.
So look for that this week throughout the website.
I'll be posting the audio, some video.
And we'll be doing a couple, probably do a couple shows over it throughout the week, I would imagine, on some of the things and kind of go more in depth on what we experienced out there.
But other than that, Shannon, Dave, do you guys have anything else?
I just want to say thank you to Bob and his whole crew.
I mean, obviously being in the field at all is great, but to have incredible people like that around you and showing you around and showing you their tricks, it was amazing.
and thank you to those guys.
Yeah, absolutely.
Mo, Sean,
Tim, Bob, all those guys.
Yeah, thank you so much.
But again, we flew in late last night,
and I don't know about you guys,
but I was pretty wiped out today.
But we flew in late last night,
and I'm going to start going through all that audio and video
and everything else.
So look for a few shows this week.
We'll be talking about it.
I'll go into a little bit more.
more about some of the tracks and some of the sounds.
And I wanted to play something for you guys tonight.
That's why at the beginning of the show,
I wanted to get some audio.
So you guys kind of get an idea of sitting out there the stuff you hear.
And it's one last thing I wanted to say before we get out of here.
You know, it's so funny because you get when stuff,
you almost have to be prepared like a crackhead all night long waiting for something to happen.
Because it seems like, did you guys notice when everyone's,
started just kind of relaxing. The sounds died off. Everything kind of got quiet. Everyone
just kind of put everything down, started relaxing. And then all of a sudden, you know, we get a
log thrown towards a camp or vocals will just start going off really close by. And it throws you
off. You're like, oh, no, I got to grab my equipment. Yeah. Yeah, you're running around crazy,
just trying to, yeah, yep. Yeah, you're on edge, you know. Yeah, you're definitely on edge.
but I think people will be interested to see some of this stuff that we captured.
And again, until look forward this week.
We'll be doing shows throughout the week,
but we just want to do a quick show tonight for everyone,
give you a quick overview of the trip,
and a lot coming this week.
So thank you guys for being here.
Thanks to everyone in the chat room.
And I want to thank everyone for listening.
Check us out at Sasquatch Chronicles.com.
Have a great night, everyone.
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